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The Huguenots music on which the Trooping of the Colour slow march is based seems to be, in fact, not the Prelude but part of the closing Stretta of Act I, incorporating "Ein feste Burg", which recurs throughout the opera, of course. See the Boosey (italian language) vocal score -imslp has it.86.131.144.239 (talk) 11:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think it will probably be found that the Royal Opera - at least the Royal Opera Covent Garden - undertook in 1991 a staging of a German production which had to be withdrawn, mainly due to a failure to foresee that the staging would impose unpaid overtime on the theatre staff, who were customarily paid the usual rates for other works of comparable length - e.g. Gotterdammerung.86.131.144.239 (talk) 11:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Those costumes....

I think they can be safely labelled superseded https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8455569q/f2.item.r=Les Huguenots.zoom

I tried to replace the costume designs for the premiere with these colour ones, but I couldn't get them to come out as large and clearly visible as what is there now. Feel free to do a better job than I did and replace the current images with these.Smeat75 (talk) 00:16, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I should have said I was doing a restoration and would get to it. I'll upload the original right now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs} 01:56, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And restoration's done. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.3% of all FPs} 04:10, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Les Huguenots is a French opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera. With a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, the work premiered in Paris on 29 February 1836. This sketch in pen, watercolour and gouache by the scenic designer Philippe Chaperon depicts the set for the first act of Les Huguenots for an 1897 production of the opera at the Palais Garnier in Paris.

Illustration credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Les Huguenots is an opera by the German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, based on the French Wars of Religion and with a French-language libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps. One of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera, it premiered in Paris on 29 February 1836. The plot moves from day to night as the massacre of the Huguenots approaches. Act 1 is set in the daytime, in the hedonistic surroundings of a chateau belonging to a pleasure-loving Catholic noble. Act 2 is set in sparkling sunshine in the beautiful countryside. Act 3, with near riots between Catholic and Protestant factions, happens as dusk falls. Act 4, with the plotting to massacre the Protestants, occurs at night, and Act 5, with the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre itself, occurs in the darkness of the early hours of the morning. This lithograph depicts the set design for Act 2 of the opera's premiere performance, depicting the gardens of the Château de Chenonceau in west central France.

Lithograph credit: Célestin Deshayes; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Pronunciation

Shouldn't it be [lez ˈyg(ə)no], because of liaison? --Trovatore (talk) 00:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]